Sunday, October 13, 2013

Reflux cough

Reflux cough, why must you come? 
Her reflux is defiantly worse with the cereal in. I'm debating if we can do this three more days. 
Last night she was more reluctant to take it and spaced her bites even farther. It ended up being over 10min, which is the ideal length of time. We were at my parents and had my grandma over for dinner. I fed her in her high chair just before we all ate. A few minutes into us eating she started arching her back a lot and fussing. Normally the rule is that she needs to stay in her high chair while we eat but I just could not make her when I induced the pain. 
During the night she started coughing. By this morning again she was coughing A LOT and you could hear her tummy refluxing. I vented her again. We use a 10ml syringe and I filled it to the top with liquid and air. You could see grains of rice cereal still in the mix of tummy juice. The past few days when I have vented her or has been white and clear. Today it was neon yellow. About 20min after I vented her, the g port popped open and at least another 10ml came out all over grandpa, her backpack, herself and the floor. It was thick and nasty. 
I could not get her cough to stop though after we got the gunk out of her tummy. It switched from a reflux cough to an irritated lung way cough from having coughed so hard. I gave her a neb to help with. She took it well. 
Today at church she kept coughing and then she would cry. We ended up just hanging out because you could tell she was trying hard to be quiet but it hurt. She kept throwing her head back. She is smiling right now when she is not coughing or trying not puke. 

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